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Soonerman on 19 July 2013
pezus said:
Soonerman said:
sales2099 said:
Why isn't there any competitor stats we can compare with. Like, how much does Sony made tablets sell?


Because there's not a way for Sony fants to spin how crappy  Sony is doing with their tablets like they like to pretend console exclusives don't count when they are on PC (because again, apparently the average customer buys a PC these days with all the equipment needed to support such graphics).

Support such graphics? You do realize 360 is 7 or 8 years old and a PC that can support such graphics these days does not cost much at all. Not to mention that you can lower the graphics, which reduces the barrier of entry even further.


I have a laptop that I bought last year's Black Friday. I haven't own an actual desktop PC in years. My peers and coworkers are the same. I work in higher education and most of the student population also don't own anything powerful and own laptops primarily. I will have this laptop for at least 5 years. Here are the specs. Oh btw, I can't run Alan Wake.  I am part of the mainstream buyer, you know, the ones that bought the Wii.  You are not. You're a core player that potentially has a PC just as good as your PS3 I own a 360 and have around 9 games since I got my 360 3 years ago. How often do you buy games?

 

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP---ENVY-Touch-Screen-Ultrabook-14%26%2334%3B-Laptop---4GB-Memory---500GB-Hard-Drive---Midnight-Black/6879218.p?id=1218810021588&skuId=6879218#tab=specifications



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Soonerman on 19 July 2013

Actually, I am part of the reason why games sell so well and why you see countless of sequels for games such as CoD and Halo. It is the mainstream that gives legs to games and consoles. I dare to say that the core gamers are the ones that do the first 2 to 3 million sales in games with the day 1 purchase and maybe 10 to 15 with the consoles. The mainstream does the rest of the damage.



Bladeforce on 19 July 2013

I play all my windows games in linux anyway, the best OS sometimes isn't the most popular OS



"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.

 

""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""

Slimebeast on 19 July 2013

I called this back in October last year:

Slimebeast said:
kowenicki said:
Its going to be a success. The people that said this would be a huge flop couldn't have been more wrong. Imagine how well all the Windows 8 tablets combined are going to do in general this holidays and during 2013.

I still believe it's going to be a huge flop.

I know it's hard, but what would you consider a success? 5% of marketshare in the first year? 10%? 20%?

I believe less than 5% first year marketshare for all Windows tablets and at the end of 2013 there will be no signifcant growth of that marketshare and analysists will have declared it as a flop and MS will have lost money on this expensive adventure.


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=149202



MoHasanie on 19 July 2013

Yikes! I was thinking of getting one cause they looked quite good and would probably be much more useful than an Ipad or Android tablet.



    

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